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Re: When I delete a line, Emacs redraws text, doesn't scroll- slow!

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From: Craig A. Finseth
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 13:27
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In article <b62mfs+.kaminski@netcom.com>, kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski) writes:
|> In <j32m7!f.bskendig@netcom.com> bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
|> 
|> >Is there any way I can get Emacs to scroll a block of text up on my
|> >screen instead of redrawing all of it?  I mean, is there some
|> >parameter I can set in my .emacs file that would fix this?  I'm using
|> >a vt100, so I *thought* this kind of thing would be handled
|> >automatically... maybe it's a bad termcap entry?
|> 
|> It's my understanding (and experience -- I use a VT100 as an extra
|> terminal) that VT100 terminals don't support the region scrolling
|> escape sequences.  The VT102 does, and Emacs scrolls great through my
|> VT102 emulator (I use Telemate on a PC) with terminal type set to vt102.

A true VT100 supports region scrolling quite well.  Of course, the
VT100 clone that Brian is using may not...

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Subject: Re: When I delete a line, Emacs redraws text, doesn't scroll- slow!
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